Magazine cap-exploder.



PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1908. 'KRUEGER. MAGAZINE GAP EXPLODER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.2,1903.

v um I UNITED STATES PATENT oEEioE.

GEORGE KRUEGER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO W. B. WHITE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

MAGAZINE CAP-EXPLODER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Application filed September 2, 1903. Serial No. 171,606.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE KEUEGEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Magazine Cap EX- ploders and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in toy magazine cap exploder.

One of its objects is'to provide a cane having a toy magazine cap exploder.

Another object is to provide a safe, and reliable magazine cap exploder.

It further consists in certain details of form combination and arrangement, all of which will be more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved device. Fig. 2 a central vertical section through the same, with the parts in the same position as in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the parts in the act of exploding a cap. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the device. Fig. 5 is a central vertical section through a modification. I

Referring to Figs. 1 to 4, A represents a cane, to the lower end of which the exploder is attached. B represents the magazine tube, which may be attached in any desired manner to the cane. C represents a plunger actuated by a spring C to feed the caps downward, and to hold them in place. slot D is provided in. the side of the tube through which a pin 0 forming part of the plunger projects. This pin travels upward and downward in the slot and may be employed to lock the plunger in the upward position by slipping it into the side notch (1 Side notches (Z are also provided through which the caps are introduced into the magazine. The slot B also enables the operator to see the caps, and to adjust them if necessary so that they will rest upon their flat faces one above the other. E represents the exploding chamber preferably formed in a casting E attached to orformed integral with the magazine tube. F represents the hammer, which is preferably placed in the mold so that the part E is cast about it in a manner well known to foundrymen. The hammer has a downwardly projecting headed simple stem G which seryes to operate the hammer by thrusting the cane sharply down against the walk or pavement, thereby causing the hammer to rise in the exploding chamber and to explode the cap between the hammer and the anvil face 6 of the chamber E as indicated in Fig. 3. The upright leg H of the hammer passes through a guiding .slot 0 in the casting, and its upper end h is curved or turned outward. I represents a spring actuated lever pivoted to cars J, preferably formed integral with the casting. This lever has a plunger K pivoted at its upper end, which lunger is adapted to reciprocate backward and forward through a slot k at the lower end of the magazine tube, being retracted by the engagement of projection h with the lever I as the hammer rises, and being forced into the slot again as the hammer descends by the action of spring Z upon the lever I. The hammer is returned and normally held in its lower position by a spring 1. The lever I is preferably formed of a loop of wire i, the oposite ends of which are coiled about the pivot i to form springs Z l. A piece of sheet metal I is bent in the form of a flat loop about the loop of wire i. The plunger K is preferably formed of a strip of sheet encircling the upper end of the loop i and bent back upon itself. M represents a guide way or channel preferably formed in the casting E. N represents a tongue or fender projecting across the front of the chamber E. m represents a slot opposite slot 7c at the lower end of the magazine tube through which the caps are fed by the plunger K.

The operation is as follows: The pin a is raised and slipped into notch (1, after which a series of suitable caps O are introduced into the tube through the slot (1 and arranged so as to rest upon their flat faces one upon another. The pin 0 is then released and the plunger descends and rests upon the column of caps. IVhen it is desired to feed a cap to the explosion chamber, the stem G is pressed upon the ground which retracts the plunger K from beneath the lower cap so that the cap descends in front of the plunger as shown in Fig 3. Upon lifting the stem G from'the ground the plunger K presses the cap through the slot at into the channel M, which it descends and falls upn the hammer. The

tongue N guides the cap into the chamber E and prevents its displacement therefrom.

metal The cap in the chamber may now be exploded as previously described, and the same operation will feed another cap into the chamber. I

In the modification Fig. 5 s herical caps are employed being preferab y fed by a spring actuated plunger as in Fig. 2. The upper 'face of the hammer 2 has a slight depression so as to cause the cap to occupy a central position thereon. The stem 8 has a spring 4 to retract the hammer. The caps are fed to the exploding chamber 5 by means of upright leg 5 of the hammer, which slides in a slot in the casting 6 and has a recess 7 which registers with the lower end of the magazine 8 when the hammer is raised as indicated in dotted lines, and receives a cap therefrom, which it carries and discharges into chamber 5 when the hammer descends.

The device herein illustrated and described is capable of considerable modification without departing from the principle of my invention.

What I claim is:

1. In a device of the character described, a cane having a head provided with an explosion chamber, an anvil within said chamber, a hammer within said chamber, means for moving said hammer toward said anvil, a magazine, a spring-pressed plunger for feeding the ammunition from said magazine to said chamber, and a part carried by said hammer and extending through one of the walls of said chamber for controlling the movement of said plunger.

2. In a device of the character described, a cane having a head provided with an explosion chamber, an anvil within said chamber, a hammer within said chamber, means for moving said hammer toward. said anvil, a

magazine, a plunger adapted to feed the ammun1t1on from said magazine to said chamber, a spring-actuated lever for operating 7 W said plunger, and a part carried by said hammer, extending through one of the wallsof said chamber and engaging said lever, Whereby said lever is moved against the tension, of its spring and said plunger withdrawn from said magazine when said hammer is moved toward said anvil.

3. In a device of the character described, a

cane having a head provided with an explosion chamber, an anvil within saidchamber, a hammer within said chamber, means for moving said hammer toward said anvil, a magazine, a plunger adapted to feed the ammunition from said magazine to said chamber, lugs mounted on said head, a shaft mounted in said lugs, a lever comprising a loop of Wire having its closed end secured to said plunger and its free ends fixedly Wound about said shaft, one of said ends engaging said head, a part carried by said hammer adapted to engage the said lever to move the same against the tension of its spring when said'hammer is moved toward said anvil and adapted to be engaged by the other end of the wire forming said lever to return said hammer to its normal position.

4. In a device of the character described, a cane having a head provided with a chamber, a magazine, a plunger adapted to feed the ammunition from said magazine to said chamber, a spring-pressed lever for actuating Y said plunger, an anvil within said chamber, and a hammer within said chamber adapted to cooperate with said anvil and comprising a portion extending parallel with said'anvil, an arm arranged at substantially right angles to said portion, adapted to engage said lever to withdraw the plunger from said magazine when said hammer is moved toward said anvil.

5. In a device of the character described, a cane having a head provided with an explosion chamber, an anvil within said chamber, a hammer within said chamber, means for moving said hammer toward said anvil, a magazine, means for feeding the ammunition from said magazine to said chamber, and a part carried by said hammer and extending through one of the Walls of said chamber for controlling the movement of said feeding means.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

C. W. MILES, A. MoOoRMAoK. 

